Class was in session at École Polytechnique in Montreal at around 5 p.m. when a 25-year-old man entered a classroom on the second floor.

Rifle in hand, he told the class to "stop everything," fired at the ceiling and ordered the students to separate themselves by gender.

After telling the males to leave, he approached a group of nine women and said he was "fighting feminism." When a student responded, "we are not feminists, I have never fought against men," he opened fire, killing all of them, according to a coroner's report.

From there the gunman would kill five more victims — all women — and end his own life by shooting himself in the head.

The incident came to be known as the École Polytechnique massacre, or the Montreal Massacre.

And 25 years later, people still remember the victims on Dec. 6, which now also represents the National Day of Commemoration and Action on Violence Against Women.

People remember the victims by placing 14 white roses near a plaque at the school, and by listing their names to honour them every year.

Here are the women who died that day — their names, their faces, what they studied, and where they worked when a gunman ended their lives.

Annie Turcotte, a 20-year-old student, had an environmental consciousness and wanted to protect her planet, The Montreal Gazette reported. According to CP, she lived with her brother in an apartment near the university and loved diving and swimming.